TheChurchMilitant

"Let no freedom be allowed to novelty, because it is not fitting that any addition should be made to antiquity. Let not the clear faith and belief of our forefathers be fouled by any muddy admixture."
-- Pope Sixtus III

Friday, February 13, 2015

In order to help us all get through the latest bout of global warning/nuclear winter/climate change/alien abduction/yeti infestation/global flattening, here are some smoking hot redheads, yet another reason why it is stupid for mohammedans to try to kill us or enslave us.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Britain voted on Tuesday to become the first country to allow a
"three-parent" IVF technique which doctors say will prevent some
inherited incurable diseases but which critics see as a step towards
creating designer babies.

The treatment is known as "three-parent" in vitro fertilisation (IVF)
because the babies, born from genetically modified embryos, would have
DNA from a mother, a father and from a female donor.

It
is designed to help families with mitochondrial diseases, incurable
conditions passed down the maternal line that affect around one in 6,500
children worldwide.
After an emotionally
charged 90-minute debate that some lawmakers criticised as being too
short for such a serious matter, parliament voted 382 to 128 in favour
of the technique, called mitochondrial donation.

The
vote paves the way for a medical world first for Britain -- which along
with the United States has been at the forefront of scientific research
on the treatments -- but one that is fiercely disputed by some
religious groups and other critics.
The
process involves intervening in the fertilisation process to remove
mitochondria, which act as tiny energy-generating batteries inside
cells, and which, if faulty, can cause inherited conditions such as
fatal heart problems, liver failure, brain disorders, blindness and
muscular dystrophy.

Mitochondrial DNA is
separate from DNA found in the cell nucleus and does not affect human
characteristics such as hair or eye colour, appearance or personality
traits.

"I wouldn't stand here and defend the
concept of designer babies -- choosing the colour of the eyes and all
the rest of it. This is about purely dealing with those terrible,
terrible illnesses," opposition Labour lawmaker Andrew Miller, chair of
parliament's science and technology committee, told the debate.

Said the fool from the middle of the slippery slope.

International
charities, advocacy groups and scientists had urged Britain to pass
laws to allow the treatment, saying it brought a "first glimmer of hope"
for some families of having a baby who could live without suffering.

"We
have finally reached a milestone in giving women an invaluable choice,
the choice to become a mother without fear of passing on a lifetime
under the shadow of mitochondrial disease to their child," Robert
Meadowcroft, chief executive of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, said
following the vote.

In
an open letter to lawmakers, 11 international campaign groups,
including the U.S. United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation, described
the condition as "unimaginably cruel".

"It
strips our children of the skills they have learned, inflicts pain that
cannot be managed and tires their organs one by one until their little
bodies cannot go on any more," they wrote.

Lawmakers
were given a free vote on the issue, and Prime Minister David Cameron's
spokesman said the British leader had voted to support it, adding it
was not "about playing God".

Said the dumbass politician with the god complex.

"He has a
particular sympathy with those parents whose children are born with very
serious illnesses, that in nearly all cases end their lives
prematurely," the spokesman said, referring to Cameron's son Ivan who
suffered from cerebral palsy and severe epilepsy and died aged six in
2009.

Proposed new laws allowing the
treatments to be carried out in Britain still have to be approved by the
upper house, which commentators expect to endorse parliament's support.

Gillian
Lockwood, medical director of Midland Fertility clinic and a
reproductive ethicist, urged the scientists developing the techniques to
continue "to educate and reassure those who continue to have
anxieties".

The Bishops Conference of England
and Wales said the Church opposed the destruction of human embryos as
part of the process and hoped treatments for mitochondrial disease could
be found.

"The human embryo is a new human
life with potential; it should be respected and protected from the
moment of conception and not used as disposable material," Bishop John
Sherrington said in a statement.

Other
critics say the technique will lead to the creation of genetically
modified "designer babies", with Conservative lawmaker Fiona Bruce
saying it would amount to letting "the genie out of the bottle".

"Where
will it lead? The answer has to be that we stop here. The answer has to
be that we say this is a red line in our country, as in every other
country in the world, that we will not cross," she said during the
debate.

Tuesday, February 03, 2015

I'd make another Fifty Spades of Shit joke here - you know, "daddy" and "spanking" and stuff like that, but I can't see my keyboard for the tears.

In the late '80s, the founder of a support group for adopted children
who had recently reconnected with their biological relatives coined the
term “Genetic Sexual Attraction” (GSA) to describe the intense romantic
and sexual feelings that she observed occurring in many of these
reunions. According to an article in TheGuardian, experts
estimate that these taboo feelings occur in about 50 percent of cases
where estranged relatives are reunited as adults (GSA’s discoverer had
herself become attracted to the son she’d adopted out when she met him
26 years later, but her feelings were not reciprocated).

Though
the research is scarce, those who have studied GSA offer a range of
possible explanations for it, including a primordial feeling of always
having “belonged” to the estranged relative, a sense of wanting to
experience the bonding missed out on during childhood, or simply an
overwhelming closeness based on similarities: like meeting a mate who
was designed for you in a science lab. Perhaps GSA accounts for Kevin
Gates’s attraction to his first cousin.

Consensual incest between fathers and their daughters remains the
least reported and perhaps the most taboo sort of GSA relationship.
Keith Pullman, who runs a marriage equality blog,
has personally talked to over 20 GSA couples and notes that he’s only
had a few father-daughter couples speak out, speculating that many of
them fear that others will assume the daughter must have been abused in
childhood (it should be said that when these unions lead to children,
those children can face potentially seriousdifficulties as a result of the genetic implications of incest, even if some online communities downplay these risks).

Here, an 18-year-old woman from the Great Lakes region describes her
romantic relationship of almost two years with the biological father she
met after 12 years of estrangement.

What was your family like when you were growing up?My
parents had me when they were 18 — they met in high school and I was
conceived on prom night. They were serious for about six months but
broke up while my mom was still pregnant with me. My dad wasn’t there
when I was born. I think my mom’s psychological problems meant the
relationship never really worked out. She has bipolar disorder and some
other mental health issues. They just weren’t happy and didn’t really
keep in contact after I was born. She wanted to do it alone. When she’s
manic it’s hard to know what she’s going to say. After I was born she
had a nervous breakdown and couldn’t take care of me, so I lived with
her grandparents until I was about 2. I think that’s part of the reason
we’ve never been close: We didn’t bond when I was a baby.

Did you have any contact with your father when you were a child?He
briefly came back into my life when I was about 3 or 4 and I saw him on
weekends until I was about 5. He lived about an hour away from us and
my parents constantly argued about visitation. He was always doing the
drive to see me because my mom wasn’t very fond of it — she wouldn’t
even meet him halfway.

Can you remember much from your time with your dad when you were little?I
have some memories. He spoiled me rotten. I had this giant storage tote
of Barbie dolls and I had my own Mary-Kate and Ashley bedroom. It was a
little girl’s dream. We’d sit in the yard blowing bubbles together, and
he took me to the zoo where he bought me a stuffed animal that I kept
until I was 16. I ended up washing it and stupidly put it in the dryer,
which melted all its fur. I remember he gave me a miniature tea set. I
still have it.

So then there was zero contact or word from him?When
I was about 15 he emailed my mom saying he’d like to see me. I vividly
remember the moment she told me. I said I missed him and wouldn’t mind
seeing him. She asked me how I could miss someone I hadn’t been with for
such a long time. But what I missed was a fatherly figure. My mom’s
always picked the wrong guy out of the crowd and she’s had a couple of
divorces. I’m still not really close with my current stepfather even
though they’ve been together for ten years. For whatever reason, my
father and I didn’t end up meeting for two more years, so there was no
contact for 12 years — we were reunited when I was 17.

So what were your feelings toward him when you were growing up? Did you think about him much?I’d
wonder where he was, what he was doing. Why haven’t I seen him or heard
from him? What did my mom do? What did he do? What did I do? My
abandonment issues really hit when I was a teenager. My mom and my
stepfather took a break because they were fighting so much and I cried
the entire time he was gone. I missed him, which was weird because we
didn’t have much of a relationship. I asked myself, Why am I crying over someone I’m not even close to?

Do you think it triggered the abandonment you felt from your own dad?Yeah. I think I was subconsciously replaying what I’d been through.

How many stepfathers have you had?Near the end
of the time my parents had joint custody of me I had a stepdad. He took
good care of my mom but she went through one of her stages again, so it
ended. She had another husband who went crazy and tried to kill her. He
was schizophrenic. Then she got with my brother’s dad and they dated for
a while but when my brother was born the dad didn’t want anything to do
with him, so I helped my mom raise him. Once he was about 3 she got
together with my current stepdad and had my baby sister. My brother and I
are 9 years apart and my sister is 12 years younger than me. I think of
them as my brother and sister, and I also think of them as my babies
because I helped raise them.

Why didn’t your father try to get in touch with you?My
mom said that he didn’t want to have anything to do with me. But she was
very controlling and kept me under Fort Knox–like conditions. She’s had
my Facebook password since I’ve had an account. One day, after I got my
Facebook privileges back, he added me as a friend. At first, I figured
it was my grandpa because they have very similar names. I thought, Maybe Grandpa got techy?
Then I realized it was my dad. I was like, Oh my God, where have you been? I don’t know if I can get close to you.
I told him I thought he was dead and asked why it took him so long to
contact me. He said he’d been adding me on Facebook but I’d always
decline his requests. But that was my mom controlling my account. After
we reunited, he showed me emails he’d sent trying to contact me.

What happened next?We chitchatted online for a few days and found out we were similar. We shared the same favorite TV shows — The Simpsons and The Big Bang Theory
— and we both love to draw. He came to see me about a week later. You
wouldn’t have believed we hadn’t been around each other for 12 years.
The idea of “getting to know him” seemed strange because we are so much
alike. He came and hung out all day and then I asked to come spend a
week with him — he lived in a small town about 30 minutes away. I think
my mom knew I was going to move out and it really was getting to the
point where I needed to escape, she was so controlling.

Has she always been that way?Not when I was younger — she
was going through a wild stage and she wanted to be more of a friend
than a mother. She was still in her 20s and she worked at a bar. When I
turned 13, she cracked down military-style. I didn’t have a voice and I
had to do everything she asked, just to keep the peace.

Did you date when you were a teenager?I didn’t really
have a social life. I stayed home a lot because my mom didn’t trust me,
and most of the kids my age were hooked on heroin, so it was hard to
find friends. I lived in such a small town where there was nothing to
do. In fifth grade I dated a boy for two years. But one night he got
drunk and had sex with a girl who ended up pregnant. It fucked
everything up. I told him he had to go and be with this girl and take
care of the kid.

She ended up falling asleep with a cigarette in her mouth and their
house burned down, so she left town with the kid and never came back. I
supported him through that and we ended up half-ass dating, then my mom
found letters we had written to each other about making out. She said
things were getting too serious and sexual and took me out of class and
homeschooled me for a while.

Did you have sex with that boyfriend?No. I had a
girlfriend in middle school and that was the most major sexual
experience I’d ever had. But she was very religious and every time we
were intimate she would sob and read me verses out of the Bible. It made
me feel like I’d hurt her. The second time we did it she cried and said
we’d done something wrong and she was worried her grandmother would
find out. I was done after that. No more crying, and no more Bible
transcripts. She had me in tears because I felt so guilty.

How do you define your sexuality?I’ve always identified as bisexual.

So can you remember what it was like the moment you and your dad were reunited? Was there an instant attraction?It was so weird and confusing. I was seeing my dad for the first time in forever but it was also like, He’s so good-looking! And then I was like, What the hell are you thinking? What is wrong with you? I saw him as my dad but then also part of me was like, I’m meeting this guy who I have been talking to over the internet and really connecting with and I find him attractive.

Was there a single moment you realized that you were sexually and romantically attracted to your dad?After I had stayed with him for about five days.

What happened?He was living with his girlfriend.
On the first night he slept on the couch and I slept on the floor, just
to make sure that I was okay.

Why was that?Sleeping in new places makes me very anxious
so I asked him to stay with me in case I had one of the terrible
nightmares I usually experience. The second night I had him sleep on the
couch again and then the third night I fell asleep with him on the
floor lying on his chest, in his arms. The fourth night rolled around
and we ended up on the floor again. This time we actually cuddled. When
he woke up, we were spooning. I didn’t know this at the time but later,
after we admitted our feelings, he told me he had had “morning wood” and
had gone to fix it.

Did you feel it?No, I was asleep and he quietly snuck off to the bathroom.

Do you mean he went to masturbate?No, he just went to pee.
He didn’t want me to see that he had an erection. Later that day, we
went shopping because I had grown out of all my shorts, so I asked him
if he could buy me some new ones. I was trying them on and asked him how
I looked and he said I looked good and I felt like I was picking up on
something more, but I pushed it out of my head. That night we were
play-wrestling in the room I was going to sleep in and I bit him. He was
wearing a pair of basketball shorts and a tank top and after I bit him I
could see goose bumps pop up from his toes to his shoulders. Then he
pinched my inner thigh and I got goose bumps.
We stopped and said that we didn’t know what was going on but
admitted that we had strong feelings for each other. We discussed
whether it was wrong and then we kissed. And then we made out, and then
we made love for the first time. That was when I lost my virginity.

Did you tell him you were a virgin?Yes. I told him I
wanted him to be the first person I made love to. We talked about how it
could be awkward if it didn’t end up working out. He also said that if I
didn’t feel comfortable at any point I should tell him.

What was it like?There’s a reason I lost my virginity to
him — because I’d never felt comfortable with any other man. It was
insanely sensual. It lasted for about an hour and there was a lot of
foreplay. We both had orgasms. We are so similar, so it’s so easy to
sexually please each other. For example, we both love neck-biting. I’ve
never been in a more passionate, loving, fulfilling situation.

Even the first time, because often it’s not the best sexual experience …That’s
what I said! I’d heard that it would hurt so I was expecting pain, but
we were both so careful with each other. I think it was also a good
experience because most guys my age are only interested in having sex
with you. I could tell that wasn’t the case with him.

I’m curious, given the age gap and the perceived power dynamic, did you feel forced or coerced at all?Absolutely
not. He made sure I wanted to do it. We both initiated it and he kept
asking me if I was okay, not because he thought I was distressed but
because he wanted me to know that we could stop at any point. It was
like any other man and woman having sex after they had each admitted
their feelings.

What was it like afterward?It wasn’t weird at all. It felt
so natural. It didn’t even feel taboo. I felt like I had just made love
with a man who I’d been with for years.

There's more, but why bother? See what happens when we allow perverts to redefine marriage?

1) "FUCK the murderous mohammedans"Obviously. You can't be allowed to murder people who disagree with you, even if they are...2) "FUCK the God-haters at Charlie Hebdo"...left-fascist haters of Love Itself. I have nothing against the cartoons that sparked The Great Cartoon War,but this Charlie Hebdo stuff is something other than a political protest and I won't be posting it here. Suffice it to say that bestiality isn't funny or clever.3) "FUCK the sanctimonius, hypocritical French"Free speech and the French? Don't make me laugh. It is illegal in the Frog Republic to try to persuade someone notto have an abortion.From EuroNews:

French comic Dieudonne is expected in court on Wednesday to answer to
charges of ‘apology for terrorism’ after appearing to praise the
suspect who killed four people in a kosher supermarket in Paris, Amédy
Coulibaly by writing “Je me sens Charlie Coulibaly” (I feel like Charlie
Coulibaly) on his Facebook page.

It came on the same day as millions of people stood behind the motto “JeSuisCharlie” at rallies across France
following the deadly Charlie Hebdo attack. The message generated a wave
of angry responses online and was referred to the police.Dieudonné is well known in France and is a particularly divisive
figure. He already stirred controversy last year over his signature
gesture, the “Quenelle”, a modified Nazi-style salute. His comedy tour was cancelled last year as a threat to public order. He also has a long history of heading to court for judgements on various anti-semitic statements.The latest incident has opened up debate about freedom of expression
and where to draw the line. In the wake of the attacks, the defence of
free speech took on a quasi-religious status and yet it is well defined
in French law. Supporters of Dieudonné have claimed France has double
standards when it comes to freedom of expression. The cartoonists of the
satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo have lampooned various religious and
political figures over the years, but have never been charged. Muslim
organisations did attempt to take the magazine to court over the
reprinting of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in 2007 but the
court ruled it did not constitute inciting racial hatred. To understand
why Dieudonné has fallen foul of French law on freedom of expression we
take a look at the comic’s previous cases and how the law defines and
limits speech...

Yes, kiddies, Okra Whingefree, Dr. Spill, the Today Show and the entire Media-Pervert Complex is pushing the Fifty Spades of Shit movie, which is a sick attempt to legitimize the abuse of women. All evil men and sexually dysfunctional women thank them for their efforts. [Extra special thanks from the perverts for the marketing campaign that's targeting young girls. "Ooooh! Pain is sooooooo romantic!"]No, ladies, it isn't harmless fantasy in pursuit of the Almighty Orgasm. It is a sickness of the soul.There aren't any super-rich, too-pretty-to-be-heterosexual geniuses out there who are going to tell you how to live every moment of your life and get you off with just a glance [and a bit of blunt force trauma, of course]. You are being manipulated by perverts who want to turn your God-given beauty into a blow-up doll, which all real men know is a jerk off toy and not a "marital aid".A real man won't hit you and call it love. And a real, healthy woman doesn't need to get hit. In fact, a real woman would put two bullets in the head of any man who tried to tie her and beat her. [I know. I love such a woman more than I love my own life.] In fact, the release of this cinematic crime is a wonderful opportunity for real men to buy their wives and daughters guns [before the Jug-eared Jackass outlaws them] and shooting lessons. Just imagine how much better the world would be if some old-timey French babe had taken a blunderbuss to the Marquis De Sade and gone all Chris Kyle [May God have mercy on his brave soul.] on his ass...

That reminds me...Guys, take your ladies to seeAmerican Sniper . Girls make really good shooters. They have fewer preconceived notions about guns and don't automatically assume they know how to handle a gun like boys often do.

Wednesday, November 05, 2014

The Democratic Party has built what looks like a stable and
demographically expanding national electoral majority. [Hee-hee. What a difference a couple of weeks make. Check out a brand new headline from this craptastic publication:The Democrats Have Two Choices Now: Gridlock or Annihilation - F.G.]
But coalitions
can come unglued, and eventually, all of them do, when their policies
fail or their elected officials push them too far from the center of
public opinion. If you want to see glimmerings of this future unraveling
of the Democratic coalition, look where the future is so often found:
in California. There Governor Jerry Brown has recently signed an
“affirmative consent law,” which requires all sexual activity among
college students to obtain “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary
agreement” and requires such consent be “ongoing throughout a sexual
activity.” It is a massive broadening of the legal definition of rape,
and a new blow in the culture wars that will likely reverberate in ways
liberals have barely begun to contemplate.

Critics like Michelle Goldberg, Batya Ungar-Sargon, and Cathy Young have questioned the practicality of this new standard. “Do
moans count as consent?” writes Goldberg, “How about a nod, or a smile,
or meaningful eye contact? If a woman performs oral sex on a man
without asking him first, and if he simply lies back and lets her, has
she, by the law’s definition, assaulted him?”

The
law's defenders have made some interesting counterarguments. But these,
in turn, merely underscore the vast distance between the law’s
aspiration and its realistic prospects. “Confirming consent leads to much hotter sex,” writes my colleague Ann Friedman, who suggests various ways that continuous affirmation could be given without killing the mood, “We’re still deprogramming the idea that nice girls don’t admit they like sex, let alone talk about how they like it.”

Tara Culp-Ressler, arguing along similar lines, proposes that the law is “about
broadly reorienting about how we approach sex in the first place … The
current societal script on sex assumes that passivity and silence —
essentially, the 'lack of a no' — means it’s okay to proceed.”

It surely is possible to imagine that sex that comports with
these new guidelines is sexy, or even more sexy than the kind most
people have now. Yet one might find these ideas about reimagining sex
attractive, as I do, while still having deep reservations about
codifying them into law. The fact that we need to change cultural
attitudes about sex itself underscores the fact that cultural attitudes
about sex lie well outside the contours established by the state of
California. What percentage of the last decade worth of Hollywood sex
scenes, if acted out between college students in California, would
technically constitute rape? A majority? Ninety percent?

Deprogramming and reorienting societal ideas about sex is an
evolutionary process. California isn't merely attempting to set out to
nudge the culture in this direction. It is reclassifying all sex that
falls outside those still-novel ideas as rape. A law premised on this
sort of sweeping, wholesale change is likely to fail.

Indeed, the law’s advocates don’t uniformly believe its written standards will actually be followed at all. This defense by Amanda Marcotte is telling: “The
law has no bearing on the vast majority of sexual encounters. It only
applies when a student files a sexual assault complaint.”
So the law will not come into play because nobody will actually try to
enforce it. Instead, it will technically deem a large proportion of
sexual encounters to be rape, but prosecutors will only enforce it if
there is an accusation. And since most, and possibly nearly all, sexual
encounters will legally be rape, then accusation will almost
automatically result in conviction.

Indeed, this may be the point. Culp-Ressler dismisses concerns about convictions of innocent people. (“In reality, false rape allegations are very rare, comprising about two to eight percent
of all reports.”) Two to 8 percent seems like a fairly high number of
innocent people to convict as rapists, and of course that proportion
could well rise quite a bit under a legal regime that expands the
definition of rape in ways that are both extremely broad and extremely
confusing.

Obviously, failing to convict a guilty rapist is bad, too.
There is no downside-free resolution that would avoid unfairness one way
or another.

But people have certain intuitive beliefs about justice. If most
college students today do not think that sex without continuous,
affirmative consent is actually rape, and there is a law in place
rendering it as such, soon enough, somebody is going to be prosecuted
under these terms. And that person will become a victim of a standard of
justice that offends the moral sensibilities of a large number of
Americans, which is directly attributable to the actions of California’s
elected Democratic officials. What will the law’s defenders do then?

Nothing else could move it to negotiate. Regime survival is the only thing the mullahs value above nuclear weapons.
And yet precisely at the point of maximum leverage, President Obama is
offering relief in a deal that is absurdly asymmetric: The West would
weaken sanctions in exchange for cosmetic changes that do absolutely
nothing to weaken Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.

A bizarre negotiating tactic. And the content of the deal is even worse. It’s a rescue package for the mullahs.

It widens permissible trade in oil, gold and auto parts. It releases
frozen Iranian assets, increasing Iran’s foreign-exchange reserves by 25
percent while doubling its fully accessible foreign-exchange reserves.
Such a massive infusion of cash would be a godsend for its staggering
economy, lowering inflation, reducing shortages and halting the
country’s growing demoralization. The prospective deal is already
changing economic expectations. Foreign oil and other interests are
reportedly preparing to reopen negotiations for a resumption of trade in
anticipation of the full lifting of sanctions.

And for what?
You’d offer such relief in return for Iran giving up its pursuit of
nuclear weapons. Isn’t that what the entire exercise is about?

And yet this deal does nothing of the sort. Nothing. It leaves Iran’s nuclear infrastructure intact. Iran keeps every one of its 19,000 centrifuges
— yes, 19,000 — including 3,000 second-generation machines that produce
enriched uranium at five times the rate of the older ones.

Yet that’s exactly what
we’re doing with Iran. It would deactivate its 20 percent enriched
uranium, which besides being chemically reversible, is quickly
replaceable because Iran retains its 3.5 percent enriched uranium, which
can be enriched to 20 percent in less than a month.

Result:
Sanctions relief that leaves Iran’s nuclear infrastructure untouched,
including — and this is where the French gagged — the plutonium facility at Arak, a defiant alternate path to a nuclear weapon.

The
point is blindingly simple. Unless you dismantle the centrifuges and
prevent the manufacture of new ones, Iran will be perpetually just a few
months away from going nuclear. This agreement, which is now reportedly
being drafted to allow Iran to interpret it as granting the “right” to
enrich uranium, constitutes the West legitimizing Iran’s status as a
threshold nuclear state.

Don’t worry, we are
assured. The sanctions relief is reversible. Nonsense. It was
extraordinarily difficult to cobble together the current sanctions. It
took endless years of overcoming Russian, Chinese and Indian recalcitrance, together with foot-dragging from Europeans making a pretty penny from Iran.

Once
the relaxation begins, how do you reverse it? How do you reapply
sanctions? There is absolutely no appetite for this among our allies.
And adding back old sanctions will be denounced as a provocation that
would drive Iran to a nuclear breakout — exactly as Obama is today denouncing congressional moves to increase sanctions as a deal-breaking provocation that might lead Iran to break off talks.

The
mullahs are eager for this interim agreement with its immediate yield
of political and economic relief. Once they get it, we will have removed
their one incentive to conclude the only agreement that is worth
anything to us — a verifiable giving up of their nuclear program.

The difference? Miss Bicondova, an accomplished dancer and actress [You can see her on Fox'sGotham ] is celebrated for her talent and grace because she lives in a civilized nation while her Iranian counterparts were arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to be whipped 91 times in the streets of Tehran as if they were animals.It matters not that the munificent mullahs "suspended" this barbaric sentence because of international outrage. The lesson to be learned is this: If you are going to try to live as a free man or woman in a medieval fascist theocracy, record yourself and hope you get enough Youtube views to keep your hide intact.

A Vatican bioethics official on
Tuesday condemned the death by assisted suicide of American Brittany
Maynard, a terminally ill 29-year-old who ended her life over the
weekend, as an undignified "absurdity".

"This woman (took her own life) thinking she would die with dignity,
but this is the error," Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, head of the
Pontifical Academy for Life, told the Italian news agency Ansa.

"Suicide is not a good thing. It is a bad thing because it is saying no
to life and to everything it means with respect to our mission in the
world and towards those around us," the head of the Vatican think tank
on life issues said in a report on the Ansa website.

He described assisted suicide as "an absurdity".

Amen to that, Father.

Maynard, who was diagnosed in January with a brain tumor and had
announced plans to take medication to die when her pain became
unbearable, had become the face of the right-to-die movement ahead of
her death this weekend.

The
group Compassion & Choices, an Oregon-based nonprofit that assisted
the young woman through her end of life, said on Sunday that she had
passed away surrounded by friends and family.

Sick fucking ghouls! The worst ones are the "doctors" who prescribed the murder weapon. There is a particularly nasty place in Hell reserved for their ilk. Hippocrates must really be pissed - "Do no harm" my eye.

The Roman Catholic Church opposes euthanasia and assisted suicide,
teaching that life starts at the moment of conception and should end at
the moment of natural death.

What can bring a fearsome NFL defender to his knees?

From Fox 19 Cincinnati:

Devon Still's daughter will be in attendance for Thursday night game against the Cleveland Browns. Leah Still, 4, is currently being treated for cancer. Devon Still announced in June on instagram that his 4-year-old daughter Leah has stage 4 neuroblastoma cancer .According to Devon, this will be Leah's first game of the season...

Beauty, grace, courage, talent...what more could anyone want? Maybe a few more years...

From WABC-TV:

Lauren Hill felt so good after fulfilling her dream that she felt inspired to play another game.

Makes sense, since the freshman forward for Division III Mount St. Joseph's stirred a capacity crowd just by taking the court.

Much
depends on Hill's health and energy as she deals with an inoperable
brain tumor that has left her with just months to live. In between
making two layups that started and finished Sunday's 66-55 victory over
Hiram College and brought a crowd of 10,250 to its feet, she spent much
of her inspiring game sitting on the bench wearing sunglasses and
headphones.

Hill's condition has made her extremely sensitive to
sensations her teammates and opposing players take for granted, but she
still enjoyed the bright gym and the cheering crowd. And she certainly
savored her two baskets on a day she will never forget.

"This
game was amazing," Hill said. "It was awesome in every way. It's a dream
come true. To play on a college court, to put my foot down on the floor
and hear the roar of the crowd - I just love it so much. I love
basketball.

Hill
made an uncontested left-handed layup for the opening basket off a
bounce pass from redshirt sophomore Taylor Brown, who missed last season
with a knee injury. The tumor affects Hill's coordination, forcing the
right-hander to shoot with her left hand.

She also made the last shot of the game, returning with 26.5 seconds remaining for a right-handed layup.

"That's the one I've been having trouble with," Hill said.

Both
shots were greeted with standing ovations from the sellout crowd at
Xavier University's 10,000-seat arena, part of an emotional afternoon
for Hill that included love and support from stars in several sports.
Tennessee women's coach Pat Summitt was in attendance, along with an
impressive list of WNBA players that included Elena Delle Donne, Delisha
Milton-Jones, Tamika Catchings and Skylar Diggins.

"She lets you know what's important," Milton-Jones said of Hill.

Moved
by the response - especially after receiving two awards, including the
U.S. Basketball Writers Association's Pat Summitt Most Courageous Award
normally awarded at the Final Four - Hill said of her disease: "We're
gonna fight this."

Hill's determination to play while raising
awareness about pediatric cancer has created a fan base that goes far
beyond the school located on the outskirts of Cincinnati.

Please pray for Lauren and all the kiddies with cancer.

The
19-year-old native of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, has received support from
across the country. Teams and players have signed and sent No. 22
jerseys to Hill, including 15 from high schools that lined the Lions'
bench.

There were plenty of posters and supportive signs, and several fans held up large yellow cutouts that said "Lauren 22."

Hill
started an online layup challenge that involves spinning around five
times and shooting a layup with the non-dominant hand. Similar to this
summer's ALS Ice Bucket Challenge that became a social media phenomenon,
the fundraising campaign (#Layup4Lauren) has captured the attention of
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton and other athletes.

The
Bengals showed a video of her layup during a timeout in Sunday's 33-23
home win against Jacksonville. Defensive tackle Devon Still -whose
daughter, Leah, 4, is also being treated for cancer - wore Hill's name
on his eye black; left tackle Andrew Whitworth had the No. 22 on his
gloves.

Videos were shown with teams meeting the challenge - with missed layups - and challenging others.

Fundraising
by The Cure Starts Now Foundation totaled more than $40,000. The NCAA
allowed the game to be moved up two weeks because of the urgency of
Hill's condition.

Lauren Hildebrand and daughter Allie, a
Lawrenceburg High School sophomore, were among 3,000 fans from Hill's
hometown in attendance, including the school's pep band. Allie
Hildebrand was Hill's "little sister" during the player's senior year
and said handling her friend's illness was difficult.

"You can't cry in front of her," Hildebrand said. "You don't want to get upset in front of her. That makes her upset."

Tears
were conspicuously absent in the arena on an upbeat day that celebrated
Hill's perseverance. Mount St. Joseph's coach Dan Benjamin said things
got emotional afterward, but Hill wasn't having it in a game she has
waited for.

"She looked tired on the bus," Benjamin said, "but once she saw that floor, there was a ton of energy."

That
was obvious when a smiling Hill entered the floor for warmups. Her mood
lifted the spirits of several children enduring various forms of
cancer. That included Cynthia Towne, 11, who undergoes periodic
chemotherapy for an inoperable though less-aggressive form of cancer
first diagnosed at 4.

The little girl from Cincinnati grinned
widely as she gave Hill a specially made headband sporting the word
"Believe" with a yellow ribbon in the middle. Encouraged by recent
diagnoses for her daughter, Katie Towne said Sunday was nonetheless
bittersweet.

"I'm happy for the joy of her getting her wish
coming true, not only for raising awareness but also for being able to
play in this game," Towne said of Hill. "But there's also sadness
knowing that how much awareness she brings right now, she won't get to
reap the benefits personally."

The totalitarian imperative is alive and well in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, however. We have elected everyone's favorite fascist chimera - the multimillionaire "friend of the little guy" who shall henceforth be known as Tom "Man Is Wolf to Man".Our only hope is that the Repansycans in the the Legislature [who bear no small amount of blame for Corbett's failure] smack down this left-fascist toady early and often...but I'm not going to hold my breath.From the Patriot-News:

We have just witnessed the single greatest repudiation of an individual politician in American history. It is time to start dismantling the left-fascist terror state before it murders one more innocent or enslaves one more fool.May God have mercy on the black (Racist.), bloody soul of Benito Insane Okhrana.

PITTSBURGH —A
priest accused of traveling to Honduras to engage in sex with children
while promoting missionary work with the poor there has been arrested by
federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

Documents reveal the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown and law enforcement agencies first learned of the allegations five years ago.

Church officials, the Attorney General's Office and the FBI were all declining to comment Friday.

The
Rev. Joseph Maurizio Jr., 69, spent two decades working with orphaned
children in Central America. Homeland Security investigators say some of
those same children were his victims.

"We see this very, very
often with child-molesting Catholic clerics. They gravitate toward
communities or countries where kids are especially vulnerable," said
David Clohessy, national director of Survivors Network of Those Abused
by Priests (SNAP).

In July, an investigator interviewed several of Maurizio's alleged victims in Honduras.

In
one case, court records say a victim known as John Doe 3 "observed
Maurizio reach over, place his hand inside a minor boy's pants, and
touch the minor boy's genital area."

That same victim said he saw "John Doe 2 and Maurizio engaging in sexual intercourse inside the chapel."

Two
weeks ago, authorities searched the rectory of Our Lady Queen of Angels
Church in Central City, Somerset County, where Maurizio is pastor, and
found multiple images of child pornography. ICE agents also searched the
farm where Maurizio lived in Windber.

The allegations against
Maurizio first surfaced in 2009, when volunteers reported him to the
diocese, the FBI and the state attorney general. But the case apparently
floundered until this year.

“That is so incredibly disappointing and so painfully common,” Clohessy said.
Maurizio
is in jail, awaiting a detention hearing Monday morning. He has said
abuse allegations against him were a bogus plot by the Honduran
government to thwart his charity work.

Maurizio's attorney, Steven
Passarello, said the criminal complaint regurgitates allegations made
five years ago after the priest's charity had a falling out with a local
charity. He said children were bribed or coerced into making abuse
allegations.

A Bible-thumping couple in Florida is changing the way people think
about their faith — with a hookup website for devout Christian swingers!

Cristy Parave and her husband, Dean, are the unashamed bodybuilding
Jesus lovers bringing couples together and introducing them to their
wild lifestyle of swapping sex partners and Bible verses, Barcroft Media
reports.

When the fitness gurus got sick of finding swingers online who
couldn’t meet their standards, they decided to set up their own swinging
network — FitnessSwingers.com. They have been touring the US ever since, meeting couples who want to join in and indulge in their holy promiscuity.

The couple first met at a bodybuilding competition, and simply don’t
care what people say about their swinging. They firmly believe that
despite their unfaithful marriages, the big guy upstairs doesn’t have a
care in the world that they’re defiling their sacred vows.

“I don’t think God would be mad at what we are doing,” Cristy said.
“At first I was conflicted, but the more we looked at it, the more it
makes sense to us.”
The 44-year-old added that she felt mankind had been created to frolic and fornicate with one another.

“God put people on the Earth to breed and enjoy each other,” she told
Barcroft. “I feel God is always with me and he has put us here for a
reason.”

The hulking matchmakers have been together for seven years, according
to Barcroft. They began their swinging escapades when the two met a
brazen couple at Home Depot who blatantly asked them if they wanted to
swing.

“I was so naive, I thought they were talking about swing dancing,”
she said. “Afterwards we went home and looked it up online and it
sounded exciting.”

About Me

First of all, the word is SEX, not GENDER. If you are ever tempted to use the word GENDER, don't. The word is SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX! For example: "My sex is male." is correct.
"My gender is male." means nothing. Look it up.
What kind of sick neo-Puritan nonsense is this? Idiot left-fascists, get your blood-soaked paws off the English language. Hence I am choosing "male" under protest.